Agent-Readiness Grade

Agent-Readiness Grade / sciencefocus.com

C

sciencefocus.com

7/12 · 58% (scaled from 5 measurable areas)

Graded 2026-10-21 14:03 UTC in 1.0s · JSON · re-grade now

Top fixes

  1. Crawler access (+1 point): Add a group for GPTBot with "Allow: /" (or drop the blanket "Disallow: /") if you want answer engines to cite you. How to fix
  2. Machine-readable surfaces (+1 point): Publish /llms.txt (a short Markdown guide to your key pages); one agent surface: /openapi.json, /.well-known/agent-card.json, or /.well-known/x402 if you sell to agents. How to fix
  3. Structured data (+1 point): add a JSON-LD block (Organization or WebSite, plus Product, FAQPage or Article where relevant) so answer engines describe you accurately. How to fix

Ordered by points recoverable. Each area: 2/2 pass, 1/2 warn, 0/2 fail.

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Crawler access (robots.txt)

1/2 · warn

7 of 8 AI crawlers may read the site, 1 disallowed

  • GET /robots.txt -> HTTP 200, 255 B, 2 user-agent groups
  • Allowed: ClaudeBot (via *) (4 path rules), OAI-SearchBot (via *) (4 path rules), PerplexityBot (via *) (4 path rules), Google-Extended (via *) (4 path rules), Amazonbot (via *) (4 path rules), CCBot (via *) (4 path rules), Bytespider (via *) (4 path rules)
  • Disallowed: GPTBot
  • Sitemap declared: https://www.sciencefocus.com/sitemap/index.xml.gz, https://www.sciencefocus.com/sitemap/news.xml.gz

Fix: Add a group for GPTBot with "Allow: /" (or drop the blanket "Disallow: /") if you want answer engines to cite you.

Machine-readable surfaces

1/2 · warn

None of the 7 machine-readable surfaces is published (a sitemap is declared in robots.txt)

  • /llms.txt: HTTP 406
  • /sitemap.xml: HTTP 404
  • /.well-known/x402: HTTP 406
  • /.well-known/agent-card.json: HTTP 406
  • /.well-known/mcp-registry-auth: HTTP 406
  • /openapi.json: HTTP 406
  • /ai.txt: HTTP 406
  • Sitemap declared in robots.txt instead: https://www.sciencefocus.com/sitemap/index.xml.gz

Fix: Publish /llms.txt (a short Markdown guide to your key pages); one agent surface: /openapi.json, /.well-known/agent-card.json, or /.well-known/x402 if you sell to agents.

Readable without JavaScript

2/2 · pass

Home page is readable

  • GET https://sciencefocus.com/ -> HTTP 200 after 1 redirect (final: https://www.sciencefocus.com/), text/html, 1.4 MB+ (truncated at 1.5 MB)
  • 768,657 characters of visible text with scripts, styles and tags removed; <title>: "BBC Science Focus Magazine - science, nature, technology, Q&As"
  • 3 external scripts, 2 inline; <noscript> present
  • first words: "Subscribe to BBC Science Focus Magazine Previous Issues Podcast Q&A News Future tech Nature Space Health Everyday science Planet Earth Magaz..."

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

Structured data

1/2 · warn

No JSON-LD, Open Graph complete

  • 0 JSON-LD blocks
  • Open Graph: og:title "BBC Science Focus Magazine - science, nature, technology, Q&As"; og:description present
  • meta description: present

Fix: add a JSON-LD block (Organization or WebSite, plus Product, FAQPage or Article where relevant) so answer engines describe you accurately.

MCP census entry (index.agentexchange.work)

1/2 · warn

Exposes /mcp but is not in the census

  • census unavailable (refused index.agentexchange.work: hosts on agentexchange.work cannot be graded from inside the same Cloudflare zone; every check would time )
  • GET /mcp -> HTTP 406 (text/plain): an endpoint answers
  • Index MCP probe record: refused index.agentexchange.work: hosts on agentexchange.work cannot be graded from inside the same Cloudflare zone; every check would time

Fix: Publish /.well-known/x402 with your paid routes so payment indexers can list you.

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